Wisdom Quotes
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Wisdom
Get out and do something. Work, sweat, hike, push yourself…
"Get out and do something - work, sweat, hike, push yourself - starve if need be - but dig on and deliver. Then talk if you want to, but the chances are you won't feel so much like it."
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I AM bigger than anything that can happen to me…
"I AM bigger than anything that can happen to me. All these things: sorrow, misfortune and suffering, are outside my door. I am in the house and I have the key."
Wisdom
Genius is talent set on fire by courage…
"Genius is talent set on fire by courage. Fidelity is simply daring to be true in small things as well as great. Courage is the standing army of the soul which keeps it from conquest, pillage and slavery."
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Knowledge makes a scholar, virtue makes a saint, noble action makes…
"Hungering and striving after knowledge is what makes a scholar; hungering and striving after virtue is what makes a Saint; hungering and striving after noble action is what makes a hero and a man."
Wisdom
Thank God every morning that you have something to do that day…
Thank God every morning that you have something to do that day which must be done